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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade

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Traveler, reader, mom and friend. Advocate for people with disabilities, choice, prison reform, journalism and science Love a caper and good laughs. Persistent

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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s Mississippi Matters Monday, and I’ve got to say, this week’s topic really upsets me. A federal court just told Jackson residents that they don’t have a right to clean water. Let that sink in.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Can I appeal to every Democratic campaign to quit texting. It actually is making donations less likely because I don’t want to be on another list. Just stop. 
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The EPA mailed Congress four old waivers and called them “rules” so the fast-track kill switch would work. They stapled the page that says they aren’t rules to the back of the envelope. A judge caught it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-rall...
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This will be interesting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Maria Bartiromo Is Out at Fox News (Gift Article)
The host, who appeared on Fox Business and Fox News, had been with the network for more than 12 years.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 03/09/2026
More from my review of The Nerd Reich:
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’d love to hear from Venezuelans how they feel about Delcy Rodriguez selling out the entire country for her own advancement:
Donald J. Trump C @realDonaldTrump
BREAKING NEWS: The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY! At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, and, through a partnership with private business, have secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer. This Historic Transaction MORE THAN DOUBLES American Oil Reserves, greatly increases our Oil Supply, and will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans, long into the future, while helping to continue to set Venezuela on a course toward Tremendous Success and Great Prosperity. This Transaction will greatly strengthen the already growing relationship between Venezuela and the United States! Thank you for your attention to this groundbreaking matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President
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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Arizona Republicans promised school choice. Taxpayers got trampoline parks, ski passes, martial arts, pianos, and luxury driving lessons while public schools begged for basics. No Child Left Unbounced takes a sharp, funny look at voucher madness. essayx.substack.com/p/no-child-l...
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Arizona Reinvents Education, One Trampoline Park at a Time
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
any book worth banning is a book worth reading
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The closure of the national archives can end up affecting all of us www.instagram.com/reel/Dbb0f1M... 
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons? Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh, the things I would make happen to him in the Black Mirror episode I would write.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Has the World Cup Turned Me Into … a Sports Guy? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/a... oh my gosh this just encapsulates my whole soccer obsession. “ I know what offside is, but I don’t know it when I see it“
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Has the World Cup Turned Me Into … a Sports Guy?
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Hunter Biden (@HunterBiden) on X
I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned. We are not a divided country. We are a ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2026
The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
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Dennis M. Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yikes!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/07/2026
This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2
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Jill Ross @jillfr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
President Trump signed orders to reduce the size of two Utah national monuments: the Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by more than 90% to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region, the White House said.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Having a functional electoral democracy is one of the most precious achievements of human civilization. We figured out how to—mostly at least—have our fights with slips of paper instead of killing each other. That's what's ultimately at stake, that's the depth of Graham's betrayal of society itself.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This Is One of the Loneliest Jobs in America www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | This Is One of the Loneliest Jobs in America
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Donald Trump has just ousted the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission. The EAC is an independent federal agency that helps administer election funds. This is just the latest example of Trump’s efforts to subvert US elections. www.propublica.org/article/fede...
TRUMP JUST REMOVED ALL THREE SITTING MEMBERS OF THE ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission
The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: In the latest blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed USPS’s arguments to the contrary as “without merit.”
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is generational harm. Stop Vought
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Wednesday Friends #10 @billy-x.bsky.social @edengk.bsky.social @coffeedrink.bsky.social @love4billyjack.bsky.social @billyjackliberal.bsky.social @boldsea.bsky.social @pattyinaz.bsky.social @richardsaunders256.bsky.social @revdrauntmartha.bsky.social @docmurphydog.bsky.social
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/07/2026
1 in 4 people in the U.S. have a disability. Accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is such a good read. Share it.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Where’s Mitch?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/07/2026
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
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Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
Their disclosure, more than 14 months after they occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities." ~ Voltaire
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HopeFlowers @lizzke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
@muellershewrote.com Pulitzer worthy shot if ever one was. How do we find out who captured this?
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our “We the People” float and no kings marchers won most patriotic trophy in mega MAGA Huntington Beach, CA today! Zero negative feedback from a joyous crowd
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A federal judge has ordered the DOJ to release more unredacted Epstein files or justify every remaining redaction by July 2, ruling the department likely violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The DOJ must comply. #OpDeathEaters #3E #EndImpunity
https://www.yacnews.com/judge-orders-doj-unredact-the-epstein-co-conspirator-torture-video-and-trump-accuser-files-by-2-july/Phang sued in April 2026 under the Administrative Procedure Act, the statute that lets courts overturn agency action that breaks the law. She had asked the court to compel release of several unredacted files she said were covered by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The department's answer was that she had no right to sue at all, and that her only route was a Freedom of Information Act request. Phang's lawyers pointed the court to FOIA requests for the same material that had already been denied.

Judge Sullivan rejected the Justice Department's position. He directed it to respond by early afternoon on 25 June, and after it missed that deadline he ordered it to produce the documents Phang had sought or show cause why it could not. He gave it until 2 July. He also denied the department's request for a seven-day pause, writing that compliance with a statute does no harm to the attorney general.

"The Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act," Judge Sullivan wrote.Phang's lawyer, Brendan Ballou, a former Justice Department prosecutor, said the department had ignored its own law and a judge's order "all for the sake of protecting the very powerful and the very rich".

The Justice Department rejected the ruling. A spokesperson said Blanche "has not conceded anything", called Judge Sullivan's reading of the law perverse and said the department had produced every responsive document and would appeal. The names the judge wants released, the spokesperson said, belong to victims who became co-conspirators, so unredacting them would expose victims.

The department has said it will appeal to the District of Columbia Circuit, where it can ask for a stay. Unless that court freezes the order, the 2 July deadline stands, and a department that neither complies nor justifies each redaction by then risks a contempt finding.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Trump administration inked a $1.6 billion deal for a U.S. company to mine tungsten in Kazakhstan. The company is linked to Trump’s sons & Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons, who will be personally enriched by their fathers’ policy decisions. The corruption is breathtaking.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Michelle Obama appreciation post, our forever First Lady. 💙
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ItsTheEnvironmentStupid @debmd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
First they came for... If you think they are creating huge mass detention centers JUST for undocumented immigrants, think again!! They have a database of protesters... #3E #NoKings #Rallies #Angrets www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...
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ICE denies having a protester database. But a letter to Congress sheds more light
In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly-departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 05/05/2026
Alex Lawson: Let's remind ourselves WHY they cut $1 trillion out of Medicaid. Why 56K people are going to die every year. To give TRILLIONS in tax handouts to the richest people the world has ever known so they can buy another golden yacht to sail to Epstein's Island or whatever it is that they do.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
OK, every Democrat running for office: Can you just stop texting me? I love you and wish you the best but JFC I’m sick of you all.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oh my gosh, is this so true. Democrats have made texting impossible because everyone has turned off their alerts. I report spam on everyone except the Vindmans. And this is completely arbitrary because I do not live in Virginia or Florida, but I like them -ha ha. NO MORE TEXTING.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I said what I said.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So they left off the biggest crime family ever. 47 is the culprit while he builds monuments to himself he cuts food for kids to $12 per month. Yes —the party of family values.
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DebMarst TheGrandmaBrigade @debmarst.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The momentum took him to the top in the primaries and will see him through November! Just what California needs – someone with strong moral fiber/work ethic/smarts! XB for CA Governor YAY
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026
Yes, there are many things to call it. But the people behind it call it the Network State. That's important because *they are telling us what they're doing.* ...Creating a network of aligned billionaires, VC firms, corporations, political movements, religions, media outlets to push toward autocracy
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